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What Is The Best Personality Type For Project Managers?

I recently introduced the nine Enneagram personality types and their impact on leadership styles. It is worth spending some time reading and considering the nine types before deciding which best…

Eamonn McGuinness | October 24, 2016 | 4 min read

Collaboration

Decision-Making and Personality Traits

Personality traits play a much bigger role in decision making than you may think. Some people are, by their very nature, indecisive. They find it quite difficult to make most…

Eamonn McGuinness | September 29, 2016 | 2 min read

Collaboration

How to Run a Successful Team Meeting [Agenda Template]

Running a successful project meeting that energizes and informs your team does not happen by accident! Take a look at how you currently organize meetings and consider the question –…

Eamonn McGuinness | August 22, 2016 | 4 min read

Collaboration

Get More Results from Your Project Sponsor Meetings [Agenda Template]

Keeping your project sponsor informed about the progress of the project is incredibly important to the overall success of the work. Learn more about leadership and collaboration in our…

Eamonn McGuinness | August 15, 2016 | 3 min read

Collaboration

9 Strategies for More Productive Team Meetings

Meetings are essential to collaboration during a project. When run correctly, meetings help to connect, involve, and inform your team. A good meeting should energize the team. Learn more…

Eamonn McGuinness | August 9, 2016 | 6 min read

Collaboration

Get DAFT for Better Meetings

“A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted.” James T. Kirk (William Shatner’s character from Star Trek) Although this quote is not likely from the original…

Eamonn McGuinness | August 3, 2016 | 3 min read

Collaboration

5 Steps to Improve Your Time Management

Time is a finite resource that we all wish we could top up every now and then! Juggling multiple, and sometimes competing, professional and personal commitments makes effective time management…

Grace Windsor | July 25, 2016 | 3 min read

Collaboration

Get the Project Approved, Sponsored, and Resourced

You are ready to start a new project – what’s next? You should formally initiate the project so you know what you’re getting into as a project manager before you…

Eamonn McGuinness | July 21, 2016 | 3 min read

Free Template

Collaborative Project Management: Make the Leap

If you’re in an organization and you want to do something new, strategic, exciting, challenging, difficult – it’s a project. Click to download our free book, Collaborative Project Management…

Eamonn McGuinness | June 23, 2016 | 5 min read

BrightWork

11 Leadership Qualities of a Great Project Manager

Leadership is an essential and critical skill that can determine the magnitude of an individual’s achievements within their career. To be a successful and productive project manager, however, the qualities…

Ta'Rikah Jones | May 27, 2016 | 6 min read

Project Reporting

Six Secrets to Using Earned Value Management [Infographic]

Here is a simple definition of earned value: earned value is a way to measure project performance and progress. You take your plan and assign a value for each item or…

Ciara McDonnell | April 21, 2016 | 3 min read

Collaboration

3 Projects that Failed Miserably

Believe it or not, projects fail…all the time. And not just small projects from small organizations, but large ones of huge significance. Some of the most powerful companies in the world…

Ruairi O'Donnellan | March 15, 2016 | 7 min read

BrightWork

The Psychology of Project Leadership

The psychology of project leadership is an emerging cross-disciplinary field that seeks to integrate the study and practice of project leadership with the fundamentals of human psychology. Read more about…

Peter Doyle | March 8, 2016 | 4 min read

Portfolio Management

What Are The Challenges With Enterprise Project Portfolio Reporting?

Global and dispersed organizations often struggle with project portfolio reporting. Free video demo: BrightWork PPM Software for SharePoint On-Premises [Watch now] Within many large organizations, the project management…

Ken Martin | December 2, 2015 | 4 min read

Project Reporting

How to Create a RAG Status in SharePoint

I’ve noticed the same question appearing in a few groups recently – “Help! How can I create a RAG Status in Vanilla SharePoint?”. As there are a few steps involved,…

Ciara McCarthy | November 11, 2015 | 5 min read

Collaboration

6 Must-Watch TED Talks for Project Managers

A big thank you to our friends over at brightpod.com who came up with this fantastic list of must-watch TED talks for those involved in project management. Keep scrolling through…

Ruairi O'Donnellan | September 17, 2015 | 3 min read

SharePoint

How to Save a SharePoint List as a List Template

If you are using SharePoint to manage projects, you can build out your site with lists to manage the various project management processes, such as tasks, issues, risks, lessons learned…

Billy Guinan | July 6, 2015 | 3 min read

SharePoint

Microsoft Project Professional 2013 Error: Sorry, we were unable to open your project!

While attempting to open a BrightWork Structured template tasks list(171) in SharePoint 2013 with Microsoft Project Professional 2013 using the ribbon option, “Open in Project”, you may receive the following…

Jonathan Browne | May 9, 2015 | 2 min read

Portfolio Management

The Purpose, Evolution, Challenges, and Functions of a PMO

The purpose of a Project Management Office (PMO) will vary from one organization to another depending on the organizational culture and business requirements. Also, the purpose, evolution, expectations, challenges, and…

Ken Martin | April 13, 2015 | 5 min read

Collaboration

Three Project Management Meeting Templates

This article has three sample templates to help improve your project meetings. If you find these suggestions useful, be sure to download a free copy of Collaborative Project Management: A…

Eamonn McGuinness | April 6, 2015 | 2 min read

Portfolio Management

6 Questions to Ask When Selecting a Project Portfolio Management Solution

Selecting a project portfolio management solution for your business can be quite difficult. Not only do you want to select the right solution for your organization, but one that will…

Billy Guinan | November 10, 2014 | 4 min read

Project Reporting | Risk Management

Managing the Risk Management Process in SharePoint

Project Risks can be defined as potential future events or conditions that can have negative effects on the outcome of a project. Webinar: 3 Simple Steps for Managing Project…

Peter Doyle | October 15, 2014 | 3 min read

Project Reporting

Project Status Reporting in SharePoint

As we all know by now, SharePoint is an excellent tool for capturing all the details about your projects, and for sharing these details and various metadata with your project…

Jonathan Weisglass | August 21, 2014 | 4 min read

SharePoint

Get rid of ‘View Entries’ in a SharePoint 2013 Append-Only Column in a View

It’s unlikely that the word ‘collaboration’ would be missing from any high-level description of SharePoint. Collaboration is supposed to be one of the main benefits of SharePoint and it is;…

Donal McCarthy | July 25, 2014 | 5 min read

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